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Interview with Fatmagül Mutlu

Fatmagül thank you so much for making the cover of our Fall 2021 issue so incredible and of course for giving me a little of your time. So things here always start the same way, call it my indulgence if you will. What was the first book you remember picking and reading by yourself? A Van Gogh's biography actually. From anyone else I would have been surprised, but from you it somehow makes a lot of sense.

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Interview with Marie Hoy-Kenny

Marie Hoy-Kenny got our Fall 2021 heading in the perfect direction with her story 'The Man in the Box'.  We were lucky enough to get a little of Marie's time recently, and yes, despite everything going on in the world, things still got started the way they always do. Marie what was the first book that you remember sitting down and reading all by yourself?  ​

Marie Hoy-Kenny

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NUNUM's Interview with Claire Hahn

Claire Hahn is a fifteen year old Korean American artist who lives in Seoul, South Korea, and attends Seoul International School. Hahn’s specialty is based on drawing and painting and she deals with the contexts of worldwide environmental issues on canvas. Through this opportunity, she was able to construct pieces of art that reflected on her creativity in how she visualizes the corruption taking place in our environment. And, thankfully for us, Claire's piece 'Hopeless Zoo' also became the cover of our Summer 2021 issue.

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The Art of Shanice Figeroux

Shanice Figeroux is a mural artist extraordinaire working out of NYC. She is an animator with practical expertise in multiple aspects of visual and graphic arts. Born and raised in Jamaica Queens NYC she's always been encouraged to stand out and speak for herself and others through her art with which she expresses and reflects on the past, present and future. Adept in clothing design, acrylic & spray painting, she has completed 12 murals for local businesses within the 5 boroughs since 2016. Her works has been recognized via a variety of grants and awards, including the Artist Corps Grant, the Artbridge Commission & the Japan Day Award in 2021. You can keep up with her on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook ... but her site is where I always end up.

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The Art of Ping Wang

​Mad World uses symbols and metaphors, the language of  

20th-century Surrealist art, to create a dream-like alienated and bizarre visual world, which explores the connection between inner emotions and nihilism.  The past, present, and the future are manifested through the combination of photography and digital painting. Most of objects in this project are based on the real memory, so first of all photography is a way to remodel the past scene. After that, on the basis of digital painting,  to surrealize the true world, distorting and incorporating it within emotions. Therefore Mad World is not only a relic of the past but also an unfinished dream.

Bullets From the Outside World Mad World by Ping Wang

Farewell in the End of September Mad World by Ping Wang

Chasing the madness is easy to get lost, because in the course of time, life and death, pain and fragility, affection and tranquility are always alternating cycles in nothingness. The answer might never be found, whether the obsession and memories is the only theory that can keep people survival in the mad world? “Why does someone have to die?” “Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. It's contrast.” “And who will die? ” “The poet will die, and the visionary” Virginia Woolf "The Hours"

Ping, thank you so much for letting us share your art with our readers. Okay, let's keep things simple to start, pen, pencil, or phone, which one do you reach for when you need to write something down? I prefer to phone, it’s very convenient. But I have always believed in the charm of handwritten letters. So I do this for some important people, like families.

Sleepless Mad World by Ping Wang

The Eternal Shine Room Mad World by Ping Wang

Which artists have influenced your current artistic direction?  ​I got so many inspirations from poem, painting, film and even animation. I can alway learn something. I like Baroque and surrealism, like Giorgio de Chirico, Caravaggio, René Magritte, they have fascinating visions

What advice would you give someone who is just starting to send their work out to journals? I would recommend read art history and learn from masters. Also be open to any form of art, learn as much as you can. Then go back to yourself, try to dig out your own story. You can’t mimic anyone forever. Last thing is keep working, feel the world.

The Death of Muse Mad World by Ping Wang

Ping Wang was born in Beijing, China, now he is a fashion photographer and visual artist based in New York.

Wang Ping

He graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a Master’s Degree in Digital Photography. Ping specialized in combining fashion and fine art with his unique aesthetics. His love for surreal and metaphysical art has inspired him to do special works. Ping’s artwork has exhibited in United States, France, Italy, China, Japan and Australia etc. In 2016, Ping was awarded the Emerging Photographer of the Year by Photo District News com- peting against tens of thousands of photographers worldwide. In 2018, his work has been awarded a Gold Winner of Fine Art Portfolio in Tokyo International Foto Awards.

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